Procurement Analytics – Building the foundations

Our team of management consultants has a strong heritage in operations management. We work across industries and functions to support our clients in improving business performance - from increasing profitability to reducing costs and making better use of people and resources.

We will work alongside you to identify and solve your most
challenging problems, conducting rigorous analysis and applying the
latest technologies to give you the insight you need to make
business decisions with greater certainty.

Our support goes further than purely identifying the solution.
We are passionate about creating lasting impact. This means helping
you to build the platform and capabilities to ensure our solution
has on-going benefits. This could involve developing a bespoke
software tool or solution that addresses the problem.

We will also support you throughout the implementation phase,
using our experience in both change management and uptake
management, to ensure the solution sticks.

We achieve results through using in-depth research and analysis,
having a pragmatic, hands-on approach and working closely with you
in a flexible way. Underpinning it all is our tried and tested Making Improvement
Real methodology.

Analytical Consulting

Our experience in working with advanced modelling techniques and computational algorithms is one of our strongest assets. Every solution we propose is informed by a combination of in-depth research and analysis aimed at converting information into insight.

We are an experienced team of economists, engineers and
mathematicians who can build analytical models that truly help
enterprises deal with increasingly large volumes of complex
information. The insights gained will support your decision-making
by answering important questions about the past, present or
future.

You can replace gut-feeling decisions with quantifiable
simulations, or test proposed future decisions against historical
data and projected trends.

We know that analytical models are only as good as the data and
the assumptions that go into creating them. Therefore, we work in
partnership with you and your team to ensure there is transparency
throughout the model-building process and to ensure we make the
most of your experienced judgment.

Process Improvement

Processes are the value engines in every organisation. When they are too rigid, slow, use too many resources or don’t produce the intended results, profit margins, staff and customers all suffer.

Process improvement involves two aspects: designing efficient
processes and making them stick. All too often processes are
redesigned but never fully embedded within an organisation. There
can be multiple reasons for this, but the key ones are: a lack of
stakeholder buy-in; poor use of technology and automation; and a
poor hand-over between the process design and the process
implementation stages of the project.

We avoid these pitfalls by working in close collaboration with
your people from the start, and by calling on the breadth of skills
we have in our teams. Our blend of consulting, change management
and technology skills allow us to help you design better processes
and use the right technology to make them stick. This way there is
no loss of focus between process design and the process
implementation.

Our approach is underpinned by our Making Improvements Real methodology,
which is our way of ensuring that any process improvement we deploy
is suited to your environment and your priorities.

Change management

Delivering successful business change is central to the majority of our projects. Our consultants work closely with you and our own team from the outset to establish the understanding and relationships necessary to support the required change.

We take the change challenge seriously and look to ensure you
are able to lead the change, that efforts are focused, and that
your own staff's experience of the change is positive.

Working throughout the project lifecycle, we make sure we truly
understand your needs and engage with your staff to co-create the
new solution and help them gain buy-in to the proposed change.

Key activities in the stages of the project delivery
include:

Discovery - getting a true understanding of the needs of the
organisation.

Build - continuing to engage the right people to co-create the
new solution, gaining buy-in and supporting them to lead the
change.

We succeed by working closely as a team with the client and
project managers, creative designers, business analysts, developers
and testers. The relationships we develop are important and the
change we enable critical.

Ultimately we strive to make the change stick and the
improvement real.